Politics
New in Ceasefire, North African Dispatches - Wednesday, July 27, 2011 10:08 - 0 Comments
North African Dispatches Morocco: Summer of change?
In his latest column, Kateb Salim takes a look at the current upheavals in Morocco, including King Mohammed VI's latest reforms. Although, the monarchy has staved off a mass revolt, Salim argues, the next few months will determine its chances of survival.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Sunday, July 24, 2011 0:00 - 0 Comments
Counterspin Can journalists blush?
In a disastrous/business-as-normal week for the British press, Musab Younis, Ceasefire's Deputy Editor, looks in the marginalia of the News of the World scandal, and wonders what if the Norway terror suspect had been named Jamal.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Sunday, July 10, 2011 16:59 - 9 Comments
Politics When Innocence is Not Enough: Talha Ahsan and the Rise of the (In)Security State
For the past half decade, Talha Ahsan, a bright young Muslim poet with Asperger's has been held in a maximum security prison, to be extradited to the US for offences that have never been clarified or proven. Author Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed charts Talha's tragic, ongoing plight and places it in the wider context of a rising (in)security state.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Monday, July 4, 2011 9:00 - 1 Comment
Essay Creating the Future: Palimpsest
Yesterday's truth becomes today's falsehood. In the third part of his 'Creating the Future' series, Paul Schloss looks at how past political victories come to lose their meaning. He suggests a radical solution.
Books, New in Ceasefire, Politics - Thursday, June 30, 2011 9:00 - 1 Comment
Books ‘The Golden Cage’ by Shirin Ebadi
Ceasefire's Frederick Andrews reviews The Golden Cage, an intriguing semi-fictional collation of personal memories, encounters and stories by the Iranian human rights activist and Nobel Prize winner Shirin Ebadi.
New in Ceasefire, South of The Border - Thursday, June 23, 2011 1:26 - 0 Comments
South of the Border The view from Latin America
This week in South America: a former top Columbian security official is indicted for the murder of a critical journalist, Peruvian president-elect Ollanta Humala visits Bolivia, and recent revelations implicate the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in fuelling Mexico's drug wars. Ceasefire's Tom Kavanagh reports.
New in Ceasefire, North African Dispatches - Wednesday, June 8, 2011 0:00 - 7 Comments
North African Dispatches Sarkozy and Africa: a matter of (dis)respect
In his latest column, Kateb Salim takes a look at Sarkozy's relationship with former French colonies in North Africa, from his days as a populist interior minister, to his ailing presidency, informed by unreconstructed neo-colonialism, opportunistic interventionism and cultural insensitivity.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Saturday, June 4, 2011 20:27 - 0 Comments
Special Report India: “progress” before people
This week, thousands of people in two rural districts of India’s eastern Orissa state are losing their homes and livelihoods, their land forcibly bought by South Korean steel mining giant POSCO after five years of Indian government deliberation. Juliet Whitley reports for Ceasefire.
Irish Times, New in Ceasefire - Saturday, May 28, 2011 0:00 - 0 Comments
Irish Times A Monthly Round-Up
In this month’s edition of his ‘Irish Times’ column, our Political Editor, Omayr Ghani, provides a round-up of events including the first visit in a hundred years by a British monarch, President Obama meeting his 8th cousin, the first Irish football derby in a decade and much more.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Saturday, May 21, 2011 0:00 - 3 Comments
Essay">Syria: Blundering and Adapting Essay
"By arresting schoolchildren, the regime caused protests in Dara’a. By killing protestors, the regime caused protests all over the country. Those who first called for reform now call for the fall of the regime." Syrian-British novelist and commentator Robin Yassin-Kassab diagnoses the repeated missteps and miscalculations of the Assad regime, and says change, no matter how protracted or tortuous, is now inevitable.
